I just (finally!) finished The Midwich Cuckoos, by John Wyndham.
So different than the movie, and being set in England during the early years of the Cold War makes a difference as well. Having a couple narrators who stretch my vocabulary is different too.
The Lost Fleet by Jack Campbell - Iāve read the first book before, but never got around to the rest of the series. Iām now reading my way through them.
I have an omnibus edition of the first three of those. I love that setting and the story. I very much enjoy his storytelling.
Thatās what Iām reading. Iām spending an awful lot of time wondering WTF, which is fun for a change. But I hope, Iām halfway through #2, that things start clearing up some and I can get a bit more background and information. For a series about a mercenary company itās awful light on military battles, which is fine, but seems counter intuitive. It reads more like a Agatha Christie book where you know more about the antagonist than the protagonist. Except it turns out you donāt know shit about the real bay guy, just some minor players in the action.
Iām also stuck on how the Black Company are working for the ābad guysā who really donāt seem all that bad except when people are talking about how bad they are.
But I like it.
I tried to read this years ago as it was a big influence on the old Myth computer game series, but had trouble getting into them. I think it may have been the slow rate of background being provided. Theyāre really written like some guy telling crazy stories at a bar, assuming you know enough of the background to fill in the blanks.
I tend to like at least being able to ācalibrateā myself as to how much Weird Shit exists in a setting, which I wasnāt getting from this. Might try it again one day, though.
I just finished āThe Strainā Trilogy and it was a fun read. Before that I read āWorld War Zā. That was a good read as well. Just started āThe Hunger Gamesā. Young adult fiction, yeah I know but it was free.
Another rare ElGee siting.
I really want to read WWZ, but the dang thing is priced like itās printed on latinum. I got the Zombie Survival guide a couple years ago for Christmas, and it seemed pretty cool fluff, for a book I hadnāt read.
I can buy three overpriced Butcher books for that, or 4 or 5 Baen books. And thatās not even looking at ARC or sale pricing.
Most of my books have been ebooks, purchased with credits I get from Google Rewards. It aināt much but it is about a book every month or so.
I read all three and I aināt no young adult. 
Enjoyed the first one, tolerated the second one, finished the third one hoping it would get better; it didnāt.
So kind of like a real revolution then?
Oh, thank the gods, I thought I was the only one.
Seriously, how badly can you flog the āreluctant heroā horse?
Yes the third book was a bit painful to readā¦I wonder how that will translate into the movieā¦I have not seen MJ pt 1 yet.
I am planning on re-reading āThe Girl With the Dragon Tattooā trilogy on vacation in a couple of months.
And I will just keep wondering. I will go to my grave wondering.
Itās possible to make a bad movie of a good book, but I donāt see any way that a good movie can be made of a bad book.
I keep going back to this, I swear this isnāt true, but I canāt come up with a single example. I must be insane.
Anyway. Reading A Long Time Until Now by āMad Mikeā Z. Williamson. I keep walking by his booth at the Indy 1500 Gun Show, so I figured Iād give it a shot. He does military characters really well. He switches POV characters a lot, so while the Crazy Feminist Air Force chick seems crazy from outside, from her point of view itās pretty reasonable. Since they are about 12k years in the past she is having some issues with her noble savage and ancients were egalitarian memes.
But, if you are familiar with the genre itās great āconstruction pornā. Building this, figuring that out, fixing that other thing, making something else work. Etc. I love that kind of crap, the parts of the old Dungeon Masterās Guide with the castle building rules and costs was always my favorite place to hang out. The author also admitted while all the people he has in the book could actually exist it wouldnāt be likely that the 10 of them would be in two MRAPS, but a book about 10 people that starve to death in a month wasnāt much fun.
In any case, so far itās a good read, and he did a lot of homework, including researching cooking in an ammo can and actually preparing and eating a couple recipes. Highly religious and feminist, and I suppose menās rights people, wonāt enjoy this if they canāt leave their stuff at home.
Try reading How to Train Your Dragon. The books are pretty awful. The movies were good.
The browser-based MMO, however, was pure crap.
I didnāt know they had been books. I had them pegged pretty much as childrenās stories, and I donāt keep up with that genre at all.
I made it halfway through the first book.
Itās a young boyās book. It also seems to have been written by a young boy.
And thereās an example.
The movie also has almost nothing to do with the book. Like Blade Runner and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, or Starship Troopers [spit].
I enjoyed Blade Runner more than Androids.
Starship Troopers wasnāt based on the book so much as a satire of the book.
I think even āsatireā would be pushing it. The animated series was closer.
So did I, but one is an action movie with some philosophical quirks, and the other is almost a monologue. The movie barely used his story, took off with his world.